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Abestos: Did you mean asbestos?

Commonly misspelled or mistyped as "abestos," asbestos (note the "s" before the "b") is a naturally occurring mineral. In laymen's terms: asbestos is a rock.

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Other common mispellings of asbestos are: asbetos, abestoes, esbestos, ebestos, aspestos, or aspestis.

What does asbestos mean?

Asbestos comes from the greek word for inextinguishable or unquenchable.

Asbestos is actually a commercial term that refers to fiberous minerals that have been used by man in commercial purposes. There are other minerals with similar qualities that have not been used commercially, and although they are considered "asbestiform," the name asbestos is generally used only to refer to six types of asbestos used in industry, construction, and for other man-made purposes.

Asbestos ("abestos") has has been used for centuries to add stength and heat resistance to other materials. There are different types of asbestos and various modern uses for each type; most often, it is used to strengthen substances. Asbestos is also resistant to heat and chemical destruction, so major industries like steel and chemical plants found uses for the mineral to help insulate against high temperatures and harsh chemicals. It's cheap price also led asbestos to be used in a wide variety of asbestos-containing products.

When airborne, it can cause serious harm to people who ingest of breath it in, resulting in asbestosis, or a scaring of the lung tissue, or mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs or abdomen.

Other common misspellings of asbestos besides abestos are asbetos, azbestos, asbostose, asbestose, asbeztos, and azbetos.

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